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The Internationally Bestselling Debut Thriller
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"Emotionally charged and tautly plotted, Emily Elgar's debut is a stunning example of psychological suspense."—Clare Mackintosh, international bestselling author of I Let You Go and I See You
From a terrific new voice in psychological suspense comes a gripping thriller in the vein
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The novel takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding the fatal accident of Simon and of the events that follow. It examines the thoughts and feelings of those involved--from his grieving parents to the hardworking doctors and nurses--as they navigate the decisions of life and death.
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proof that the dying are the ones who have the most to teach us about life."--Atul Gawande "Thanks to When Breath Becomes Air, those of us who never met Paul Kalanithi will both mourn his death and benefit from his life. This is one of a handful of books I consider to be a universal donor--I would recommend it to anyone, everyone."--Ann Patchett"--Provided by publisher.
7) Heartless
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Immortal enemies novels (Showalter) volume 1
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Let the madness take hold…
Kaysar the Unhinged One possesses a power like no other. A mystical song able to scramble any mind. Feared by one and all, the ruthless warrior earned his crown with blood, driven by a single purpose: the misery of every Frostline. Held captive by the royals as a child, Kaysar will stop at nothing to achieve victory—even abduct and seduce Prince Jareth’s beloved bride, winning her body and soul, ensuring his own child...
10) Cake
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"Claire becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group while grappling with her own, very raw personal tragedy"--www.imdb.com.
11) Tatouine
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A man living in a Montréal apartment, with a dead-end job and cystic fibrosis, avoids feeling disapointed about his life by daydreaming about a fictional planet called Tatouine.
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Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon--the only female consultant at her hospital. But while operating on a young woman with life-threatening blood poisoning, something goes horribly wrong. In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons' performance, her colleagues begin to close ranks, and Elizabeth's life is thrown into disarray. Tough and abrasive, Elizabeth has survived and succeeded in this most demanding, palpably sexist field. But can she...
13) Cancer ward
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The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward" is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state."Cancer Ward," which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, "The Magic Mountain...
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Diagnosed with Alzheimers, Connie Kish hangs onto her identity as an intelligent woman, age forty-eight. She's the caregiver to her husband, Max, taking him under her wing when it should be the other way around. They're awash in Alzheimer's, struggling to stay afloat and looking after each other.
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A novel of meticulous brevity and a tone and vision all its own, transmuting the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity, the meaning of care, and the nature of annihilation--physical, spiritual, or both. A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student doctor. So begins this powerful debut, which follows our unnamed narrator through cadaver dissection, surgical rotation, difficult births, sudden deaths, and a...
17) Crime story
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"An old man suffering from cancer seeks revenge on the thieves who have destroyed his life"--www.imdb.com.
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"Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital. He is doing his best as a single dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah, and his unit at the hospital has been named number two in the country. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric's entire world begins to crumble. Seventeen-year-old Max has a terminally ill grandmother and is having trouble handling it. That, plus his OCD and violent thoughts about a girl...
19) Virgil Wander
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"An enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart"--Provided by publisher.
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After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover. In...
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